Samara Joy and Dee Dee Bridgewater both compete for Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy, discussing how women are finally breaking ...

Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living art form, it can feel both nourishing and a little perilous to stand in awe at the wonders of the past. It's especially tricky in a year when some ...

The End-of-the-Year lists are upon us once again, and there were some special albums that spun in just-walking-the-dog heavy rotation. Specifically, when plugged into a trusty Walkman, it is the noise ...

With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild ...

The achievement ranked the ensemble as the nation's top jazz band from a historically Black college or university and the top ...

Jazz is there and gone,” famed Miles Davis pianist and composer Keith Jarrett once said. “It happens. You have to be present for it. It’s that simple.” Thankfully, here, in America’s most ...